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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: lines per screen in Handshake
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Date: 16 May 91 00:48:57 GMT
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>>>I am logging in to a unix machine, and when I use utilities
>>>like more/vi they recognize the page size correctly as 24 lines.
>>>If I switch to 48 lines per screen, more still halts pages every
>>>24 lines. Same for vi.
>

I had this same problem.  I solve it by running a program called "resize"
(which lives in the X-windows executable directory -- but hey, it works...)

Just do a "find resize", and that should tell you if you have it on your
system.

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